Coil

Live at Mutek 2003

Metropolis, Montreal, Canada

May 29, 2003

Feeling: Fluffy!

AMT #1 - M?, 3/10, 320 x 240 AVI, Incomplete

One 30-second clip of “Blue Rats,” shot from the front of the audience.

Instrumental phase; John bailed due to drug addiction, and no one took vocal reigns. There is some contention among Coil fans as to whether or not these gigs can/should be considered Coil gigs, but it’s obvious to us at LCA that they count. Debut performances of all songs except “Triple Sons and the One You Bury (Instrumental).” “Blue Rats” and “The First Five Minutes After Death” come from Black Light District and Horse Rotorvator respectively. It’s difficult to name the second track. You can hear for a fact it incorporates sound effects from the “ANS” sessions Coil did earlier in 2003, and there may be looped snippets of “The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence II” in there too, but what with the raindrop sound effects, it most closely resembles “Drip Drop” from the “Live Four” phase. As far as I can tell, the next two versions of the track do not incorporate any raindrops, so “ANS” is a better name for them, but for the sake of consistency, we’ll just refer to the song as presented at this show and the next two as “Drip Drop (ANS).”

Peter and Thighpaulsandra donned the fluffy suits once again for every show during this particular phase. Thighpaulsandra spoke for the band the few times when he’d open and close the gigs and introduce certain songs.

LCA Concert Page, containing more info: http://live-coil-archive.com/2003-2/2003-mutek03/

Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson – Ableton sequence, video projections, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer

Thighpaulsandra – Fenix Synthesizer, Kurzweil Synthesizer